Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy details how Hearth & Timber collects, processes, and protects your personal data when you interact with our publication. We are committed to transparency and the safe handling of all user information in accordance with privacy laws.
1. Data Controller
The data controller responsible for the processing of your personal information across this website is Hearth & Timber Publishing Ltd. You can direct inquiries regarding your personal data, editorial data storage, or privacy practices to our appointed data protection representative through our published contact channels.
2. Legal framework
We handle your information in strict accordance with the data-protection law of your country alongside the governing statutes of your country. In the event of any contradiction between these notes and statutory regulations, the legal text takes precedence.
3. Data Collected
We collect personal information that you provide voluntarily through our contact forms or reader feedback submissions, including your name, email address, and correspondence history. In addition, our systems automatically collect server log details such as your IP address, browser user-agent, operating system, and anonymous analytics metrics via configured cookies to understand site performance.
4. Purposes and Legal Basis
We process your personal information to deliver our editorial content, respond to reader inquiries, safeguard our web infrastructure against malicious attacks, and compile non-identifying readership metrics. The legal basis for processing correspondence is your consent and our legitimate interest in resolving queries, while log data and security processing rely on our legitimate interest in maintaining a secure, functional publication.
5. Storage Period
Reader inquiries received through contact forms are retained for up to twelve months following resolution to facilitate ongoing communication, after which they are purged. Technical server logs containing IP addresses are retained for safety and diagnostic purposes for ninety days before being automatically overwritten or anonymized.
6. Third-Party Services
We engage reputable third-party infrastructure providers to support web hosting, content distribution, firewall protection, and anonymous web analytics. These processors receive only the data necessary to perform their technical duties, operate under strict data processing agreements, and are legally barred from using your information for unrelated objectives.
7. Your Rights
Subject to applicable privacy legislation, you have the right to request access to, rectification of, or deletion of your personal data held by Hearth & Timber Publishing Ltd. You may also object to certain data handling operations, request data portability, or submit a complaint to your local data protection supervisory authority if you believe your privacy rights have been infringed.
8. Questions about this policy
Send a note to [email protected] or call +1 (0902) 833-9701 throughout Mon-Sat 08:30-17:00. We answer each inquiry within one business day.
- Merchant
- Hearth & Timber Publishing Ltd
- Registered address
- 1526 Dresden Row, Halifax, NS B3J 3K3, Canada
- [email protected]
- Phone
- +1 (0902) 833-9701
- Working hours
- Mon-Sat 08:30-17:00
- Registration
- EIN: 83-6442566